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New insights into mechanisms of enhanced synaesthetic memory: Benefits are synaesthesia-type-specific
The goal of this study was to test the nature of the memory advantage in synaesthesia. We compared four different types of synaesthetes (27 grapheme-colour, 21 sound-colour-, 25 grapheme-colour-and-sound-colour- and 24 sequence-space synaesthetes) to their matched controls. Recognition memory for th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6124748/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30183781 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203055 |
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description | The goal of this study was to test the nature of the memory advantage in synaesthesia. We compared four different types of synaesthetes (27 grapheme-colour, 21 sound-colour-, 25 grapheme-colour-and-sound-colour- and 24 sequence-space synaesthetes) to their matched controls. Recognition memory for three types of stimuli (music, words, colour) was tested. We anticipated a general advantage in memory for synaesthetes and potentially additional synaesthesia-specific benefits. The results showed a general advantage for synaesthesia. Further, a benefit for colour stimuli resulted for grapheme-colour synaesthetes and a benefit for music stimuli resulted for grapheme-colour-and-sound-colour synaesthetes, indicating synaesthesia-type specific effects. These results suggest different mechanisms for the explanation of the memory benefit for different types of synaesthesia such as synaesthesia-related colour expertise for grapheme-colour synaesthesia and additional encoding opportunities for grapheme-colour-and-sound-colour synaesthesia. |
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spelling | pubmed-61247482018-09-16 New insights into mechanisms of enhanced synaesthetic memory: Benefits are synaesthesia-type-specific Lunke, Katrin Meier, Beat PLoS One Research Article The goal of this study was to test the nature of the memory advantage in synaesthesia. We compared four different types of synaesthetes (27 grapheme-colour, 21 sound-colour-, 25 grapheme-colour-and-sound-colour- and 24 sequence-space synaesthetes) to their matched controls. Recognition memory for three types of stimuli (music, words, colour) was tested. We anticipated a general advantage in memory for synaesthetes and potentially additional synaesthesia-specific benefits. The results showed a general advantage for synaesthesia. Further, a benefit for colour stimuli resulted for grapheme-colour synaesthetes and a benefit for music stimuli resulted for grapheme-colour-and-sound-colour synaesthetes, indicating synaesthesia-type specific effects. These results suggest different mechanisms for the explanation of the memory benefit for different types of synaesthesia such as synaesthesia-related colour expertise for grapheme-colour synaesthesia and additional encoding opportunities for grapheme-colour-and-sound-colour synaesthesia. Public Library of Science 2018-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6124748/ /pubmed/30183781 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203055 Text en © 2018 Lunke, Meier http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lunke, Katrin Meier, Beat New insights into mechanisms of enhanced synaesthetic memory: Benefits are synaesthesia-type-specific |
title | New insights into mechanisms of enhanced synaesthetic memory: Benefits are synaesthesia-type-specific |
title_full | New insights into mechanisms of enhanced synaesthetic memory: Benefits are synaesthesia-type-specific |
title_fullStr | New insights into mechanisms of enhanced synaesthetic memory: Benefits are synaesthesia-type-specific |
title_full_unstemmed | New insights into mechanisms of enhanced synaesthetic memory: Benefits are synaesthesia-type-specific |
title_short | New insights into mechanisms of enhanced synaesthetic memory: Benefits are synaesthesia-type-specific |
title_sort | new insights into mechanisms of enhanced synaesthetic memory: benefits are synaesthesia-type-specific |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6124748/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30183781 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203055 |
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